1. NRC Shelter-HLP Project Preliminary Findings And Cautious Suggestions

2. The Challenge: Humanitarian Organisations often get stuck -- or realise too late that something is becoming unstuck --when it comes to: Housing, Land and Property Rights Land Access Tenure Security

3. Some help is at hand… A network of different international rights-based instruments A history of trainings focused on HLP Upcoming Resources Guide, developed by the ESC HLP Working Group

4. But, There is often not enough practical guidance for implementing according to international principles The rule of law doesn’t stretch very far in some places Intractable HLP problems do not respect project deadlines We are not always the answer to the problem

5. Some preliminary suggestions 1: Map all of the locally applicable tenure-security instruments On a range of ‘soft’ to ‘hard’, and ‘efficient’ to ‘non-efficient Including ‘customary’ and ‘formal’ Decide which set of instruments you will engage with Why these ones? What are the pros and cons? What are the risks? What is the Plan B?

6. Some preliminary suggestions 2: Think: all aspects of The Right To Adequate Housing Think: Individual -- and Community Think: the relationship between HLP and engineering

7. Some preliminary suggestions 3: First, Do No Harm Humanitarians are not always the answer ‘How to take NO for an answer’ ‘Customary law works, until something changes’ How to help people cope with the problem, rather than solving the problem for them?

8. Questions or comments?